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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: psodagud@codeaurora.org
Cc: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smp: Add bootcpus parameter to boot subset of CPUs
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:04:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736204xmu.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6d7f84679240fcf580520230a88c058@codeaurora.org>

On Mon, Oct 26 2020 at 10:08, psodagud wrote:
> Based on my understanding with maxcpus option provides, maximum no of 
> CPUs are brough up during the device boot up. There is a different case, 
> in which we want to restrict which CPUs to be brough up.

Again: What for? Why?

> On a system with 8 cpus, if we set maxcpus as 3, cpu0, cpu1, and cpu2 
> are brough up during the bootup.  For example, if we want to bring 
> core0, core3 and core4 current maxcpu(as 3) setting would not help us.
> On some platform we want the flexibility on which CPUs to bring up 
> during the device bootup. bootcpus command line is helping to bring 
> specific CPUs and these patches are working downstream.

A lot of patches work downstream by some definition of work. But that
does not make an argument to bring them upstream.

Thanks,

        tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-22 22:04 [PATCH] smp: Add bootcpus parameter to boot subset of CPUs Elliot Berman
2020-10-23  7:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-23 21:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 17:08   ` psodagud
2020-10-26 17:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-27 17:06       ` Elliot Berman
2020-10-28 14:55         ` Qais Yousef
2020-10-28 15:15           ` Sudeep Holla
2020-10-29 21:37             ` Elliot Berman
2020-10-30 17:45               ` Sudeep Holla
2020-11-03 22:10                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-26 19:04     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-10-25 13:06 ` Qais Yousef
2020-10-28 15:55 ` Sudeep Holla

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